MISER I have gold my hope – Job 31:24 Thou fool – Luke 12:20 A harvest may as well be looked for in a hedge as true grace in a gold-thirsty heart. – John Trapp The miser deprives himself of this world and God will deprive himself of the next. – Thomas Adams A poor … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY – 06 May
May 6 Psalms 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. Table grace was originally intended to help people turn their attention to God. The meals we share are a gift from God, and He is to be thanked, but we are also to … More PRAY WITHOUT CEASING*
SERVICE Your reasonable service – Romans 12:1 His servants ye are whom ye obey – Romans 6:16 They who will not wear Christ’s yoke will much less bear His burden. – William Gurnall An idle servant is in God’s esteem and evil servant. – George Swinnock No true Christian is his own man. – John … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY – 05 May
FASTING AND FEASTING I wept and I chastened my soul with fasting – Psalm 69:10 Ye…eat the lambs out of the flock…drink wine in bowls…but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph – Amos 6:3,4,6 Gluttony is the sepulcher of the living, and a kind of spiritual drowning of a man. – William … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY – 04 May
Maybe it is worth the strange challenge of asking this simple question: How would I live if I had been saved by merit rather than grace? Continued at Source: If Only I Had Been Saved By Merit! – Tim Challies
It has been a little over a week since my last post. My wife and I went to Puerto Rico to visit my suegra, mother-in-law for her 80th birthday. We were in a dead zone, with no internet, (none at local restaurants either) and intermittent cell and data service. It had been about 41 years … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY – 03 May
We all mess up… but we can all start anew… for God’s grace and mercy… are refreshed every day too. For He knows we are human… and we’ll all make mistakes… so He gives us multiple chances… no matter how many it takes. Now we each have a choice… every moment of the day… to … More We All Mess Up– But We Can All Start Anew
UNION WITH CHRIST I in them – John 17:26 Abide in me and I in you – John 15:4 Take away union and there can be no communion. – John Flavel Adam’s sin profits none but those that are in him, and Christ’s blood profits none but those that are in him. – John Flavel … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY – 23 April
REPENTANCE AND PARDON Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. – Isaiah 55:7 All gospel mourning flows from believing. – Thomas Brooks That sin which is not … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY – 22 April
THE POWER AND WEAKNESS OF THE LAW OF GOD By the law is the knowledge of sin – Romans 3:20 What the law could not do – Romans 8:3 The law may express sin but cannot suppress sin. – John Adams The law thou it have no power to condemn us, hath power to command … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY – 21 April
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